1916 in British music

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This is a summary of 1916 in music in the United Kingdom.

Events

28 March – Sir Hubert Parry's choral setting of William Blake's poem "And did those feet in ancient time" (which becomes known as "Jerusalem"), is premièred at the Queen's Hall, London, having been written on 10 March.
Gustav Holst completes composition of his orchestral suite The Planets, Op. 32.

Popular music

Harry Castling & Harry Carlton – "The Tanks That Broke the Ranks Out in Picardy"[1]
A. J. Mills, Fred Godfrey & Bennett Scott – "Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty"[2]
Ivor Novello and Lena Guilbert Ford – "Keep the Home Fires Burning"
Frederick Weatherly & Haydn Wood – "Roses of Picardy"

Classical music: new works

Kenneth J. Alford – The Great Little Army, march[3]
Frederick Delius – Cello Sonata[4]
Gustav Holst – The Planets[5]
John Ireland – Two Songs, 1916

Opera

Rutland Boughton – The Round Table

Musical theatre

13 May – The Happy Day by Seymour Hicks, with music by Sidney Jones and Paul Rubens, and lyrics by Adrian Ross, opens at Daly's Theatre, starring Winifred Barnes, José Collins and Arthur Wontner, where it runs for 241 performances.
3 August – The musical comedy Chu Chin Chow, written, produced, directed and starring Oscar Asche, with music by Frederic Norton, premières at His Majesty's Theatre in London's West End, starring Asche himself, Frank Cochrane and Courtice Pounds. It will run for five years and a total of 2,238 performances (twice as many as any previous musical), a record that will stand for nearly forty years.[6]

Births

8 February – Jimmy Skidmore, jazz musician (died 1998)[7]
13 February – John Reed, actor and opera singer (died 2010)
3 March – Bernard Stevens, composer (died 1983)
17 March – Ray Ellington (born Harry Brown), singer (died 1985)[8]
14 April – Denis ApIvor, composer (died 2004)
9 May – Bernard Rose, organist and composer (died 1996)
9 July – Edward Heath, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, organist and conductor (died 2005)
11 July – Reg Varney, actor and pianist (died 2008)[9]
11 August – Benny Lee, comedy actor and singer (died 1995)
18 August – Moura Lympany (born Mary Johnstone), pianist (died 2005)[10]
date unknown – Malcolm MacDonald, composer (died 1992)

Deaths

21 January – George Musgrove, theatre and opera producer, 62[11]
13 May – Jessie MacLachlan, Gaelic singer, 50
2 August – Hamish MacCunn, composer, 48 (throat cancer)[12]
5 August – George Butterworth, composer, 31 (killed in action)[13]
13 November – Frederick Septimus Kelly, composer and Olympic rower, 35 (killed in action)[14]
24 November – John Francis Barnett, composer and music teacher, 79[15]

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References

Dave Russell (1997). Popular Music in England 1840–1914: A Social History. Manchester University Press. p. 157. ISBN 978-0-7190-5261-3.
Martin Pegler (20 August 2014). Soldiers’ Songs and Slang of the Great War. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 163. ISBN 978-1-4728-0929-2.
Jeffrey Richards (2001). Imperialism And Music: Britain 1876-1953. Manchester University Press. p. 431. ISBN 978-0-7190-4506-6.
Martin Lee-Browne; Paul Guinery (2014). Delius and His Music. Boydell & Brewer Ltd. p. 360. ISBN 978-1-84383-959-0.
Richard Greene; Kenneth Hamilton; Greene Richard (16 March 1995). Holst: The Planets. Cambridge University Press. p. 15. ISBN 978-0-521-45633-3.
Compilation of longest-running plays in history Archived 2010-04-02 at the Wayback Machine
Jazz Journal International. Billboard Limited. 1998.
Ian Carr; Digby Fairweather; Brian Priestley; Charles Alexander (2004). The Rough Guide to Jazz. Rough Guides. p. 75. ISBN 978-1-84353-256-9.
Roy Hudd; Philip Hindin (1997). Roy Hudd's Cavalcade of Variety Acts: A who was who of Light Entertainment, 1945–60. Robson Books. ISBN 978-1-86105-115-8.
Lawrence Goldman (7 March 2013). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2005–2008. OUP Oxford. p. 705. ISBN 978-0-19-967154-0.
Gittins, Jean (1974). "Musgrove, George (1854–1916)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Melbourne University Press. ISSN 1833-7538. Retrieved 1 November 2009 – via National Centre of Biography, Australian National University.
Alasdair Jamieson (2013). The Music of Hamish Maccunn. AuthorHouse. p. 46. ISBN 978-1-4772-3504-1.
Michael Barlow (1 January 1997). Whom the Gods Love: The Life and Music of George Butterworth. Toccata Press. ISBN 978-0-907689-42-3.
Frederick Septimus Kelly (2004). Race Against Time: The Diaries of F.S. Kelly. National Library Australia. ISBN 978-0-642-10740-4.
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[1] Dave Russell (1997). Popular Music in England 1840–1914: A Social History. Manchester University Press. p. 157. ISBN 978-0-7190-5261-3.

[2] Martin Pegler (20 August 2014). Soldiers’ Songs and Slang of the Great War. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 163. ISBN 978-1-4728-0929-2.

[3] Jeffrey Richards (2001). Imperialism And Music: Britain 1876-1953. Manchester University Press. p. 431. ISBN 978-0-7190-4506-6.

[4] Martin Lee-Browne; Paul Guinery (2014). Delius and His Music. Boydell & Brewer Ltd. p. 360. ISBN 978-1-84383-959-0.

[5] Richard Greene; Kenneth Hamilton; Greene Richard (16 March 1995). Holst: The Planets. Cambridge University Press. p. 15. ISBN 978-0-521-45633-3.

[6] Compilation of longest-running plays in history Archived 2010-04-02 at the Wayback Machine

[7] Jazz Journal International. Billboard Limited. 1998.

[8] Ian Carr; Digby Fairweather; Brian Priestley; Charles Alexander (2004). The Rough Guide to Jazz. Rough Guides. p. 75. ISBN 978-1-84353-256-9.

[9] Roy Hudd; Philip Hindin (1997). Roy Hudd's Cavalcade of Variety Acts: A who was who of Light Entertainment, 1945–60. Robson Books. ISBN 978-1-86105-115-8.

[10] Lawrence Goldman (7 March 2013). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2005–2008. OUP Oxford. p. 705. ISBN 978-0-19-967154-0.

[11] Gittins, Jean (1974). "Musgrove, George (1854–1916)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Melbourne University Press. ISSN 1833-7538. Retrieved 1 November 2009 – via National Centre of Biography, Australian National University.

[12] Alasdair Jamieson (2013). The Music of Hamish Maccunn. AuthorHouse. p. 46. ISBN 978-1-4772-3504-1.

[13] Michael Barlow (1 January 1997). Whom the Gods Love: The Life and Music of George Butterworth. Toccata Press. ISBN 978-0-907689-42-3.

[14] Frederick Septimus Kelly (2004). Race Against Time: The Diaries of F.S. Kelly. National Library Australia. ISBN 978-0-642-10740-4.

[15] . Accessed 12 Nov 2014